Favorite Pastime: Checking the
social scene at local coffee houses . . .

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WRITER'S EMBELLISHMENT

. . . where N.L. has an inexplicable fetish for the outside floodlights.
N.L. can
be found most often buzzing around the coffee house after dark. Occasionally, and
out of pity, the manager will let N.L. indoors, where N.L. can be found doing the
backstroke in a leftover frozen cappuccino. N.L. then returns to its lair under the
leaf of a plant in the financial aid office. N.L. can be found during the daytime's
perched on top of an office chair in the same room while holding a phone with its forelegs
and typing at its computer with its middle appendages.

During N.L.'s lunch hours, N. L.'s favorite hangout is a potted plant outside the
student center, where a different fraternity adopts N.L. as their personal mascot every
year. N.L. has been nominated "Most Popular Carnivorous Staff Member" for
four years running, and is rumored to be the first PostBachalaurate student with an
exoskeleton to be slated for this year's homecoming parade. [How N.L. will get into
an evening gown or tux is anyone's guess . . . .]

Although N.L.'s frequent posting to the list has earned questioning glances from N.L.'s
employers, N. L.'s job security is said to be in good health. "Oh, we wouldn't think
of getting rid of N.L.!" N. L.'s supervisor told OSC list member reporters in a
recent interview, "N.L. is a beneficial insect!"